The current state of affairs of the country and its economy is pretty grim, but that does not mean it cannot be fixed. The question rests with the American public, however, and that means getting serious and voting in a change of attitude and new people who have the expertise and understanding to fix it and who respect what this great country once was and can still be again after Mr. Obama tried to destroy it, because it will not be fixed by a smirking Joe Biden or his inept boss.
Yes. Obama tried to destroy it and re-invent it. He and his wife tried to destroy it with some silly altruistic nonsense they learned in college. Just think about that for a minute. They both prominently announced their disdain for the country and dedicated their tenure to trying to hope and change it, and they have openly vilified Mitt Romney, a man who has “been there and done that.”
The economy is the engine that drives the country and as long as Mr. Obama remains president investment capital will remain on the sidelines, simply waiting for a better business environment to emerge.
The question remains: who were they to make that pronouncement and what was their motivation? Seriously. Who needs a First Lady telling someone they can’t have a Big Mac?
Dwight Eisenhower was the first president I remember. There was a time when the president was revered, wherein we were told as children how much we should respect The Office, and it wasn’t pollyanish, it was de rigeuer . One did not have to agree necessarily with the man in the Big Chair, but respect was part of the cache. My parents voted Democrat in those days, but don’t doubt for a minute that they held DDE in the highest esteem and taught us as children to do the same.
I have long ago said: You can command respect, but you cannot demand respect, and that explains where we are today as a country, with a weak leader who panders not only to celebrities with an uncontrollable fetish, but also mollifies instead of leading on an international basis, and weakness is easily perceived and sets the table for abuse. That is the president we have today. The Candy Man. Mr. Flim-Flam. The Artful Dodger. The Man Who Would Be King.
That King is naked, ladies and gentlemen, and we’re all the worse for it.
We do not need a president who is a “contemporary” of ours, as this fool tries to be. We need a man who is a cut-above. A man who leads by example and not one who “gets down” with us, and does not insipidly stupid fist-bumps with his wife, who jogs down the staircase of Air Force One, and who does his little street-shimmy to “signify” to his people. We need a man. We need a leader. We need someone who isn’t out to win a popularity contest, and one who has the brass to take on challenges, address them boldly, and not care a whit what it does to his “Q” rating.
I’ve been a CEO. I’ve made good judgments and bad judgments, but, I was in the game. I was a player. I accepted responsibility for my actions and I would do it all over again if asked because I wasn’t afraid to get my hands dirty. I wasn’t afraid of failure and I wasn’t afraid to make tough decisions. Hindsight can make a perfect world for of any of us, but like an elderly gent once schooled me, and I’ve said this before, “you can’t drive forward looking in your rearview mirror.” I not only accept that advice; I embrace it daily. Having said that?
Let’s take a closer look at the current president. From a management point of view I always felt a meeting went poorly if I was the smartest person in the room. Why? Because strong managers wish to surround themselves with bright people and wish to gain their expertise. Mr. Obama is the polar opposite, for he surrounds himself with “yes-men”, shies away from conflict, and is not a man who handles opposition well. He has, himself, said he holds Mitt Romney in disdain, and why? Because Mr. Romney is something he is not, and someone who challenged him, and he not only challenged him he thumped him roundly in the first debate, and this was a new event for Obama. Once again, why?
Apparently Mr. Obama feels himself above the fray, as if it is beneath him to actually have to explain himself or discuss opinions he holds, and now that his feet are being put to the fire for the first time in his 51 years he is acting like a petulant child and pouting because he has for once and always been finally exposed as a the man with big hat and no cattle, and that just wasn’t on the radar screen of his or his advisors. They think, “how dare they?”
The big hustle finally hit the wall and little Barry can’t handle the heat.
The economy is the engine that drives the country and as long as Mr. Obama remains president investment capital will remain on the sidelines, simply waiting for a better business environment to emerge. The tax burden of Obama care is immense, and the regulations with which he has saddled industry are enormous. Before companies can begin to contemplate the idea of spending they must first be able to quantify what it is they must face with respect to excessive taxes and government strong-arming will do to their bottom lines, and with so many feckless signals emanating from the Oval Office everyone remains in freeze-frame, for they don’t know when the iron hand will dip into their pockets anew.
What we have is a man leading the country with no background in business challenging business to grow when in fact he has no idea how it thrives much less what environment is conducive to making it thrive. And the pandering is never-ending.
Bill O’Reilly, the epitome of glam-journalism, interviewed Ben Affleck recently and asked him questions as to how he would change things, what advice he would give Mr. Obama, and how he thought that advice might help, and Ben Affleck actually tried to speak with authority as if he might actually know something , and came across as the dunce he obviously is. My question is this: how far have we descended as a country when such discussions make the news? I’ll date myself, but cannot imagine taking seriously what Cary Grant thought about politics, and in fact cannot even imagine him agreeing to that interview, yet today, we have the “poseurs” getting attention, commenting about a president who is one in the same, and people actually paying attention to it.
If the state of affairs is as bothersome to you as it is to me, the explanation lies right in front of us, and it is high time to address it. Hit the right button in November.
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